At 12:39 PM -0600 11/28/01, david/lisa soderman wrote:
> If there's a
>way to effectively allocate more RAM to NikonScan (used as a plugin)...I'd
>be happy as a clam. ;-)
David--
The way to give NikonScan more memory as Photoshop plug-in is to (1)
allocate lots of memory to Photoshop and (2) close all images before
opening NikonScan.
If you have a 100MB image (uncompressed size) open in Photoshop, then
Photoshop will want to have 300MB of RAM available to work with it.
The same 3x ratio applies to any image size. Any less and you'll be
hitting the hard disk constantly while working with the image. When
you run NikonScan it takes memory from Photoshop's RAM allocation.
It needs some RAM just to run and more RAM as temporary storage for
the images it creates, and even more RAM if you use ICE.
So what I'd do is allocate as much RAM as I possibly can to Photoshop
(in your case about 1.2GB of RAM to Photoshop leaving 300MB for the
system and other stuff), then run Photoshop alone (no other apps
running) and with no images open between scans.
Of course you know how to increase Photoshop's RAM allocation, right?
Go to the Finder, find the Photoshop application, select it, from the
File menu choose Get Info > Memory, in the resulting window type
120000 into the "Peferred Size:" box.
--Bill
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